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An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…
An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians by the reverend Father John Jewel ... ; whereunto is adjoined a very necessary table of the principal matters contained in this exposition.An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians by the reuerend Father Iohn Ievvel ... ; vvhereunto is adioined a very necessarie table of the principal matters contained in this exposition.
London: printed by Ralfe Newberie, 1584
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When Christ came into Jerusalem, the young children received him. They cried Hosanna 1to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Christ gi•eth witness of them, By the mouth of babes and sucklings, hast thou set forth thy praise. The words of the little and simple children were able to confound the wisdom of the Pharisee is. Thus were they taught from their cradle, so careful were their godly parents for them.
When Christ came into Ierusalem, the young children receiued him. They cryed Ozanna 1to the sonne of Dauid: Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lorde. Christ gi•eth witnesse of them, By the mouth of babes and sucklinges, hast thou set foorth thy praise. The wordes of the little and simple children were able to confounde the wisedome of the Pharise is. Thus were they taught from their cradle, so careful were their godly parents for them.
- 1Matt. 21.
Contrariwise, they can not have any wisdom, that despise the law of the Lord. They become blind, and wicked, & abominable in all their ways. They have no sense, nor feeling of the will of God. They cannot know light from darkness, nor God from Belial. Such were the little children that mocked the Prophet Elisha, and said to him, Come up thou bald 1head, come up thou bald head. Their bringing up was no better. Their wicked fathers had taught them nothing el• but wantonness. But the ⟨p. 64⟩